Chapter
Outline of the book to follow
2. Running through the jungle
The record deal: standard industry practice in the twentieth century
Music, technology, legislation and revenue-generation
There ain’t no “I” if there ain’t no “we”
Credit and just compensation
Section One. Historical context and conceptual frameworks
3. Intellectual property rights and their diffusion around the world
Pushing the present back into the past
The impulse towards a nomothetic narrative
Where are property rights in other knowledge traditions?
Historical contingency, or universalism plus individualism
Conclusion: towards an idiographic approach to IP history
4. The political economy of intellectual property
The political economy of intellectual property
The costs of intellectual property
An international inversion
5. I am because I own vs. I am because we are
John Locke: ownership of self, other people and ideas
Section Two. Terrains of conflict and terms of engagement
6. Owning up to owning traditional knowledge of medicinal plants
Examples of state actors: INDECOPI / NCAB and TKDL
The case of Peruvian maca
7. Using human rights to move beyond reformism to radicalism
The public interest and user human rights
Knowledge, A2K and copyright
Schools, libraries and archives
Why we need to tier copyright protection
Examples of existing tiers of copyright protection
Skladany’s revenue-based tiers
8. Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss
Digitalization, crisis and the “death of copyright”?
Copyright and the courts: enclosing musical cyberspace
Exploiting music IPRs in the digital age
9. Free software and open source movements from digital rebellion to Aaron Swartz
Intellectual property and societal benefit
Digital rebellion with software licenses
Cultural rebellion with content licenses
Freedom of information and freedom of expression
Today: corporate influences challenge our freedoms
Summation and moving forward
Coda: What’s radical about free/open source software?
Section Three. Law, policy and jurisdiction
10. Rethinking the World Intellectual Property Organization
11. What is intellectual property?
What is intellectual property?
Power and (lack of) evidence: the drivers of intellectual property policy
Intellectual property, through the eyes of economics
Applying the framework: the case of JSTOR and Aaron Swartz
Toward a saner intellectual property future
12. Piracy, states and the legitimation of authority
Legal definition of piracy
Knowledge to all is freedom of thought
13. Summary and concluding remarks
The history of intellectual property rights must be re-written
Traditional knowledge must be safeguarded
A tiered approach to copyright is fundamental to enhancing education
A world without copyright promises new possibilities for music and the arts
Proposals for a more equitable balancing of the public good against private interests
A radical refocusing of IPR policy analyses
About the editors and contributors
A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property
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